With the help of ths forum I have networked my laptop & desktop together, the laptop had a built in card, & I installed one in the desktop, then installed a crossover cable between them. Here is the problem when I turn on the laptop, it automatically has my desktop dial my ISP, I am unable to use my laptop offline, even when I click cancel during dial up on the desktop, it will wait & try to dial up again I have disabled auto-dial in the control panel on both computers. My OS is XP in both computers